Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

Leighton Andrews is by far one of the most able Labour back-benchers. Curiously, this defector from the Lib Dems slugs it out for the acme of ability with another party’s defector, Alun Davies, once of Plaid - as if Labour itself is unable any more to produce politicians of real ability.

But why then [...]

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We all know the Western Mail (otherwise Llais y Sais) is losing readers, and that their reporters sometimes can’t find stories (after all, it is still the “silly season“).

But today’s effort on the future leadership of the Welsh Labour Party in the wake of Rhodri Morgan is peculiarly off-centre.

So peculiarly off-centre that it’s worth examining, [...]

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Rhondda AM Leighton Andrews is reported as demanding that Cambria’s ‘editor’ apologise for claiming that Rhondda schoolchildren were forced to turn out “North Korean-style” during a visit to the area by Prince William in May. Henry Jones Davies (Cambria’s publisher, not its editor as Andrews stated) made the remarks on BBC Wales’s Dragon’s Eye programme [...]

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Decades of uninterrupted political power almost always exacts its cost - usually in something that could look like corruption.

A background feeling that everything is not quite right back at the ranch was presumably a factor in Labour’s devastating losses in last month’s council elections.

Despite these losses, the party managed to hang onto control of [...]

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